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Sir Gawain, as he’s not yet a knight at the beginning of
The Green Knight, David Lowery’s new film based on the late 14th-century Middle English poem,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The point of the film is to give him one, and if that story hews pretty closely to the “Hero’s Journey” formulated by the late folklorist Joseph Campbell and deeply beloved by Hollywood screenwriters ever since George Lucas dreamed up Luke Skywalker, it also brings a more somber and mature tone to what’s become a movie cliché.
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Both Lowery’s film and the original poem, whose author is unknown, are about what makes a knight that is, a man, or more specifically, a gentleman. The poem readily lends itself to Campbell’s formulas, which is not surprising, given that it inspired them. Lowery mostly follows a Campbellian interpretation of the tale: that is, treating it as a story of personal growth. His film takes place in a nearly empty, wintery landscape in which Gawain